Happy 80th Birthday, Gloria Steinem!

Happy 80th Birthday, Gloria Steinem!

Gloria Steinem is turning 80 this Tuesday, March 25. Best known for her feminist activism — as a journalist, author, publisher. I like to think that Steinem helped paved the way for the work that we all do, telling our own personal stories as bloggers. Back in the 1950s and 60s, when “women’s writing” was often limited only to traditional homemaking and society stories, Steinem showed that women’s stories could include work like her expose of the Playboy Club or her reporting on contraception or abortion.

In the 1970s, Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine and the National Women’s Political Caucus and continued to use her prominence to lobby for women’s rights.

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